CONTINENTAL Ranked#1 by Fortune
Feb 21, 2006, 12:01 pm
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CONTINENTAL Ranked#1 by Fortune
Continental Airlines Ranked No. 1 Most Admired U.S. Airline By FORTUNE Magazine
Tuesday February 21, 1:30 pm ET
HOUSTON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL - News) today announced it was rated the most admired U.S. airline on FORTUNE magazine's America's Most Admired Companies airline industry list. The list and related stories appear in the March 6 issue, #1Continental Airlines
2. Southwest Airlines
3. AMR
4. Alaska Air Group
5. ExpressJet Holdings
6. America West Holdings
7. Northwest Airlines
8. Delta Air Lines
9. UAL
10. US Airways Group
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Tuesday February 21, 1:30 pm ET
HOUSTON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL - News) today announced it was rated the most admired U.S. airline on FORTUNE magazine's America's Most Admired Companies airline industry list. The list and related stories appear in the March 6 issue, #1Continental Airlines
2. Southwest Airlines
3. AMR
4. Alaska Air Group
5. ExpressJet Holdings
6. America West Holdings
7. Northwest Airlines
8. Delta Air Lines
9. UAL
10. US Airways Group
ww.fortune.com
Feb 21, 2006, 4:54 pm
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Unusual Scoring
It looks like the folks at Fortune adopted some sort of scoring/ranking system from the same mathematical wizards that add up the scores for the Freddy's. While Continental is #1 in the airline category and Southwest is #2, Southwest is the #3 most admired company overall regardless of industry/vertical. If CO is #1 on the airline list, wouldn't they be above Southwest on the overall list too?
Feb 21, 2006, 5:04 pm
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How is it that Jet Blue didn't make this list?
Feb 21, 2006, 6:51 pm
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Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?
Feb 21, 2006, 6:54 pm
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What does "most admired" mean, anyway?
Feb 22, 2006, 1:12 pm
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So... if Continental is the #1 in the airline industry and Southwest is #2... how can Southwest be #3 over all industries and Continental not even in the top 20 (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...dmired/top20/). I call shenanigans.
Feb 22, 2006, 1:17 pm
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Originally Posted by grizzly
So... if Continental is the #1 in the airline industry and Southwest is #2... how can Southwest be #3 over all industries and Continental not even in the top 20 (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...dmired/top20/). I call shenanigans.
Don't know for sure, but Fortune's 'Top 100 Companies to Work For' competition has to be applied for - and there are some associated costs to do so. Perhaps CO chose to apply for only the airline category? They did make the decision not to apply for the best companies to work for thing this year in order to save $$.
Last edited by flymeaway; Feb 22, 2006 at 4:39 pm